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Google Zeitgeist, and Moorhuhn Chicken?
dcd asks: "It is interesting from time to time to look at what others are searching for using Google Zeitgeist The number 2 gaining request was for Moorhuhn3, which seems to be a freeware game that is popular in Germany. Searching for 'moorhuhn linux' brings up this page which when translated on google are directions and links to play it on Linux using WINE. Now two questions come to mind: Has anyone found a 'real-time' method to find out what is actively being searched for on google (I think alta-vista used to do this); Has anyone tried this freeware game, and was it interesting? For the curious, here's another web page describing this game and Linux." Back in a time before Google, I used Metacrawler for searches and that had Metaspy which I think is a good example of what the submittor is describing. I haven't tried this Moorhuhn Chicken game, but after visiting the sites, I must say it looks intriguing. -
Web now 320 million pages
The web has grown so much that even the best search-engines only cover a third of it. Although this might suggest that sites such as metacrawler would become more popular since they combine the results of many search-engines together, the result may be quite the opposite: sites such as devsearch which target a particular topic only. A full gory analysis is here.